Parker Fader, Mark Barber

May 28, 2017

Dr. Ralph Parker Fader IV and Dr. Mark Gregory Barber are to be married on May 28. Laura K. Budzyna, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion, officiated at Thalassa, a New York restaurant.

Dr. Fader, 29, is known as Parker. He is a second-year psychiatry resident at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. He graduated from Brandeis and received his medical degree from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

He is a son of Elizabeth A. Fader and Mr. Fader III of Pittstown, N.J. Dr. Fader’s father and mother retired from Verizon; she was a senior marketing manager in the Irving, Tex., office, and he was a senior human resources consultant in the Basking Ridge, N.J., office.

Dr. Barber, 33, is to become an intern next month at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, and will begin a neurology residency in July 2018 at Mount Sinai. He graduated from Middlebury College, received a master’s degree in public health from Columbia, and received his medical degree from the University of Connecticut this month.

He is a son of Marcia E. Barber and John H. Barber of Shelton, Conn. His mother retired as the sales coordinator at H. Barber & Sons, a Naugatuck, Conn., manufacturer of environmental equipment that is owned by Dr. Barber’s father.